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Topic: From E-Hell Blog: Do People Listen To The Lyrics? (Read 123685 times)

When I walk up the aisle to marry my DF, it will be to a piano-only arrangement by a former keyboardist for Journey, who somehow combined "Don't Stop Believing" with "Here Comes the Bride." It's nice and short and really lovely.

After we are pronounced husband and wife, we're going to have the DJ crank up the chorus of "Don't Stop Believing" because we are totally corny and cheesy. And because it's my first marriage and I'll be a couple months over age 40 when we marry. And I'm just a small town girl and he's just a city boy, after all!

I think our first dance might be to Cheap Trick's "I Want you to Want me" because that's DF's favorite band other than the Ramones and I vetoed dancing to the Ramones for our first dance.

My BF & I just decided the other night that, should we ever get married, we must have our first dance be to the John Prine duet "In Spite of Ourselves" :-) We just both like the sweet, campy, disfunctional whimsy of the lyrics. Unfortunately, I don't know the lady's name who joins him in this song... Hate not giving credit where due, but I can't search and type simult. on my mobile...

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Once in a while you get your delight, in the strangest of faces if you look at it right...

My BF & I just decided the other night that, should we ever get married, we must have our first dance be to the John Prine duet "In Spite of Ourselves" :-) We just both like the sweet, campy, disfunctional whimsy of the lyrics. Unfortunately, I don't know the lady's name who joins him in this song... Hate not giving credit where due, but I can't search and type simult. on my mobile...

My BF & I just decided the other night that, should we ever get married, we must have our first dance be to the John Prine duet "In Spite of Ourselves" :-) We just both like the sweet, campy, disfunctional whimsy of the lyrics. Unfortunately, I don't know the lady's name who joins him in this song... Hate not giving credit where due, but I can't search and type simult. on my mobile...

DH's cousin and new wife danced to that at their wedding two years ago, it was cute, and suited them to a t!

I dance in flash mobs, and I did one recently for a marriage proposal. We did Pitbull's "Give Me Everything" which has a pretty chorus, but a friend told me later it's about a one-night stand. Eat to start a future together!

What about when people pay attention to only part of the lyrics? DH and I had our first dance to Edwin McCain's "I'll Be," which to me, is a song about making promises to be there for each other. I still get misty-eyed when it comes on the radio! But this part of the chorus:

I'll be your crying shoulder,I'll be love's suicideI'll be better when I'm older,I'll be the greatest fan of your life.

Caused one of my aunts (Fern, incidentally, if you read about her lovely email) to ask my Grandma, "Why are they dancing to a song about SUICIDE?!" My Grandma and I giggled about it later!

I have been to a few weddings where the HC danced to Boyz II Men's "End of the Road." That is a breakup song, but it's a great song!

I can't recommend finding a cellist to watch this with enough. It was sent to me by a dear friend who was one. It's fall-on-floor funny!

Hahaha I love that rant:"When you walk to school with a cello you're like a wounded gazelle on the Serengeti"

My sister (a vocalist) assures me that ALL musicians hate Pachelbels Canon, not just the cellists. Anything that is played over and over again eventually acquires a certain punitive effect

Coming from a school with a stronger-than-average traditional music program (we have very large banjo, fiddle, and mandolin classes), it doesn't get as strong hate here simply because when was the last time you ever heard Pachelbel's Canon on the banjo? Though now I kind of want someone to do that...

In that same traditional music program, I've heard several people saying things along the lines of "Someday, I'm going to play Wagon Wheel at my wedding!" which isn't as inappropriate as a lot of the stuff here, but it's still about hitchhiking, losing all your money at poker, and... possibly drugs; I'm not totally sure what the singer is meant to have been doing with the trucker they hitchhiked with.

^ My 2 year old DD LOVES Wagon Wheel (Darius Rucker sings it now). She like to sing "Rock me Mama" and "hey, Mama rock me" - when she wants *me* to sit and rock with *her*

Also, just my 2 cents but Lovesong by The Cure is beautiful and definitely a great wedding song!DD and DH/ I dance to Guns and Roses "Sweet Child O' Mine" all the time, I could see her using that as her Daddy/Daughter dance someday. She loves it.

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